statsposa.blogg.se - Littlesnitch mac

That being said, I don't think Little Snitch is "must have" software these features are fairly esoteric. The Little Snitch shows network usage for each application, albeit in a limited way.

It's easy on MacOS to see how much bandwidth you're using but much harder to see which program is using that bandwidth.

Little Snitch also monitors network traffic on a per-application basis.

Ie: you can configure it so one web browser can access a web site but not another.

Little Snitch lets you configure the firewall per application, not just address or port.

Also, I suspect many people use Little Snitch to block pirated software from checking their license. Handy if you're running some untrusted program and aren't sure what it's going to do, or if you want to disable a program for updating itself, or if you want to prevent access to a specific resource.

Little Snitch allows you to block outgoing connections the MacOS firewall only blocks incoming connections.

(It does this by loading a custom kernel module.) Little Snitch offers three features that aren't available in MacOS' built-in ipfw firewall.